title: A tribute to Lasègue's description of anorexia nervosa (1873), with completion of its English translation.
abstract: Gull and Lasègue are usually credited with the first description of anorexia nervosa. In general, however, the work of the French neuropsychiatrist has been underestimated, and English-speaking colleagues who refer to Lasègue's writing on 'hysterical anorexia' almost exclusively rely on the translation of his French paper, which in 1873 appeared in a British medical journal, the same year as the original publication. However, some important passages had been omitted from the translation, and this has not previously been noted.
authors.affiliation: University Psychiatric Centre, Kortenberg, Belgium.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Vandereycken
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: van Deth
mesh_terms: D000856:Anorexia Nervosa / Q000266:history*; D005602:France; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D007046:Hysteria / Q000266:history*